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According to research conducted for Copenhagen Consensus, which I direct, investing an extra $88 billion in agricultural R&D over the next 15 years would increase yields by an additional 0.4 percentage points each year, which could save 79 million people from hunger and prevent five million cases of child malnourishment.

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Tackling social and environmental problems at the same time with the same solution yields great cost savings, wealth generation and national security.

This is work that we're doing to try to highlight places in the world where we could improve yields without harming the environment.

The green areas here show where corn yields, just showing corn as an example, are already really high, probably the maximum you could find on Earth today for that climate and soil, but the brown areas and yellow areas are places where we're only getting maybe 20 or 30 percent of the yield you should be able to get.

So we find ourselves on a planet at this particular distance simply because it yields conditions vital to our form of life.

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